Word: quislingism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thumbing his Nazi primer last week, Major Vidkin Quisling, Führer by grace of Hitler in Norway, sought a totalitarian catchword. Freedom was out; so was the attractive proposition, guns v. butter, because Norway had neither. Then he found it: Lebensraum. But where? Turning his globe, Führer...
To peace-loving Norwegians the Quisling noise went unheeded because for perhaps the first time their interest was turning to guns which could be turned against Quisling and his protectors. Nazi police who hung their bayonet and pistol belts with their overcoats in cafés lost them, and Nazi...
A Government decree was issued prohibiting possession not only of firearms but even knives. While Quisling was out to get Lebensraum, many Norwegians were out to get Quisling.
Student demonstrations took place in Oslo last week against the Government of traitorous Premier Vidkun Quisling. There were nightly forays of protest, during which boys tore anti-Semitic signs from Jewish-owned shops. The Gestapo disbanded a students' association, arrested several, threatened to close Oslo University for the winter...
Only 2.5% of Norway's 125,000 square miles are cultivated for food crops. Before the war the thrifty Norwegian Government laid in food reserves sufficient for a year's consumption. But damage from bombings and requisitioning by the Germans have already nearly exhausted the reserves. It looked...